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Ajinkya Kawale is a correspondent with Business Standard, specialising in the emerging fintech industry in India. He has also covered agrarian distress in Maharashtra and political developments during the Lok Sabha election season. He holds a postgraduate degree in multimedia journalism from Christ University in Bengaluru. He is a keen follower of India's infotainment space on YouTube and other OTT platforms, apart from non-fiction and biographies in their printed versions.
Ajinkya Kawale is a correspondent with Business Standard, specialising in the emerging fintech industry in India. He has also covered agrarian distress in Maharashtra and political developments during the Lok Sabha election season. He holds a postgraduate degree in multimedia journalism from Christ University in Bengaluru. He is a keen follower of India's infotainment space on YouTube and other OTT platforms, apart from non-fiction and biographies in their printed versions.
The move comes at a time when other players, including PhonePe, Cashfree Payments, and Razorpay, made similar moves nearly two months ago
The latest version of BHIM 3.0 will be rolled out in phases to its customers, with the body planning a complete launch by April 2025
It added that quarter-on-quarter (Q-o-Q) sanction value had declined by 15 per cent in the third quarter of FY25 (Q3FY25) compared to the previous quarter
The non-banking financial company (NBFC) plans to leverage BharatPe's merchant network with a base of over 18 million customers
If the proposal is accepted, nearly 90 per cent of India's 60 million UPI-accepting merchants will remain unaffected, as they fall under the small enterprise category
Only a fraction of the cumulative issued e-RUPI vouchers were redeemed, the data show
The deal will allow PayU to expand into the real-time payment processing market, including the Unified Payments Interface (UPI)
The independent assessors (IA) verified the existence, control, and quantity of the platform assets
Industry's concerns surfaced after the government approved ₹1,500 crore in a scheme for the promotion of low-value BHIM-UPI transactions when made from peers to merchants
This is in response to the Reserve Bank of India's (RBI's) internal feedback on its bid for official SRO status, according to three sources from the fintech industry
This is the first time the Centre has defined small and large merchants in the context of outlining BHIM-UPI incentives
UPI services will be expanded to more than 12,000 merchants in Singapore
Since December last year, Indian merchants part of Amazon's Global Selling programme have been able to collect their global payouts using the company's offering for international bank transfers
Paytm's share price rose 7.79 per cent, closing at Rs 742.45 on Tuesday on the Bombay Stock Exchange
The announcement comes at a time when creditors are tentatively scheduled to vote on the asset redistribution scheme between March 19 and 28
Since 2021, they have created 167,391 fake documents by creating websites that mimic common service centres (CSC), according to cybersecurity firm CloudSEK
Adani Group Chairman Gautam Adani visited the NMIAL site on Sunday to review the progress of the project
The survey was conducted across 10,000 agents in the country, recording financial transactions of women consumers
The Bengaluru-based fintech firm, which has been offering cashbacks on UPI transactions, overtook Cred, which processed 126.48 million the same month
The average loan ticket size in the first half of FY25 was Rs 84,507, compared to Rs 92,086 since September 2021